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I agree with the crisis in justice. Ninety percent of our work is useless because we have Byzantine procedures for prosecuting mountains of crimes. We are grinding water and this is frustrating.

— Carlo Nordio

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This book should be studied at the High School of the Judiciary (referring to the book entitled ‘'Il mostro’' by Matteo Renzi).

Legitimate choices are not necessarily appropriate ones. A magistrate must not only be impartial, but must also appear to be impartial.

I believe that no magistrate should ever run for election, and even more so, a public prosecutor who has become famous for political investigations should not do so.

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